[OkGoDoIt]

Sure, it has existed for several years. But I’ve yet to drive a single car that supports it. By my understanding only super expensive high-end luxury cars support it, and even then it’s hit and miss. I’ve never seen it with my own eyes.

[bluk]

https://www.cars.com/articles/wireless-apple-carplay-and-and... lists 2019 model cars with Wireless CarPlay. I've driven one and tried out the wireless CarPlay, and it works more or less like the wired version (no lag, as smooth as wired CarPlay AFAICT). The only major inconvenience is probably that, if you have a passenger and they want to use their phone for music, you will need to pair their phone to the car instead of just finding the wire and plugging in. Takes about 30 seconds to a minute to go through all the setup. While the cars listed are not cheap by any means, there are a few moderately optioned minivans around the same cost of some of the less expensive cars from BMW (base cost around $38K USD).

Honda is also rumored to be adding wireless support ( https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/10/wireless-carplay-... ) for their 2021 Accord model so seems the feature is become available on more affordable cars too.

[gruturo]

Beware of BMW pulling unethical crap on its customers by attempting to extract an annual fee for CarPlay: https://www.carscoops.com/2019/08/this-is-why-bmw-charges-80...

They even tried to blame Apple for this, only to have their lie publicly called out by Apple. This created such outrage that the decision had to be reversed, but for me that's enough - they showed their true colors and are very likely to come up with further crap in the future.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/4/20995630/bmw-apple-carpla...

Oh I just noticed it was discussed here on HN too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16195529

[bluk]

I agree that it was ridiculous and to be on guard for these shenanigans. 100%.

Today though, BMW is not charging a “subscription” fee and much more importantly, all of their iDrive data is provided for free with free software updates. And yes, competitive pressure probably forced them to, but it is much better than just 5 or 6 years ago where you were charged for yearly map updates by buying a DVD. They are also the first car manufacturer to support the CarKey feature so they have changed (for now anyways).

[kalleboo]

I get Facebook ads for a third-party wireless CarPlay dongle that plugs into a car that has wired CarPlay support.

Apple could make a first-party one.

[red_phone]

The upper trim levels of the ‘21 Honda Accord have it.

[cmckn]

Aw man, my 2019 doesn’t. I rarely need to charge in the car, and it’d be so nice to use CarPlay without having to buckle my phone in

[Angostura]

There are dongles available - no, really.

[geronb]

Almost all BMWs from the past few years have it. We have a 2017 X5 and wireless CarPlay works very well and is very convenient.

[binaryblitz]

An X5 is a pretty high-end luxury car.

[miskin]

My hybrid Mini Countryman supports it and it works very well.

[xondono]

An X1 like mine isn’t, and it has wireless CarPlay too